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| Author | : William Croft |
| Publisher | : Pearson Education |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780582356771 |
William Croft's text weaves together recent research findings from sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, grammatical change, pragmatics, social variation, language contact and genetic linguistics.
| Author | : April M. S. McMahon |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 1994-03-17 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521446655 |
This textbook analyses changes from every area of grammar and addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics.
| Author | : Kate Burridge |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2016-11-03 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1315463008 |
2 Changes to the lexicon -- Introduction -- 2.1 Gaining words - lexical addition -- 2.1.1 Compounding -- 2.1.2 Affixation -- 2.1.3 Backformation -- 2.1.4 Conversion -- 2.1.5 Abbreviation -- 2.1.6 Acronyms -- 2.1.7 Blending -- 2.1.8 Commonization -- 2.1.9 Reduplication -- 2.1.10 Borrowing -- 2.1.11 Sound symbolism -- 2.1.12 A final word on the processes -- 2.2 Losing words - lexical mortality -- 2.2.1 Obsolescence -- 2.2.2 "Verbicide"--2.2.3 Reduction -- 2.2.4 Intolerable homonymy -- 2.3 Etymology - study of the origin of words -- Summary -- Further reading -- Exercises
| Author | : Roger Lass |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 1997-04-03 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521459242 |
Roger Lass offers a critical survey of the foundations of the art of historical linguistics.
| Author | : Jean Aitchison |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521795357 |
This is a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change. It discusses where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how languages begin and end. It considers both changes which occurred long ago, and those currently in progress. It does this within the framework of one central question - is language change a symptom of progress or decay? It concludes that language is neither progressing nor decaying, but that an understanding of the factors surrounding change is essential for anyone concerned about language alteration. For this substantially revised third edition, Jean Aitchison has included two new chapters on change of meaning and grammaticalization. Sections on new methods of reconstruction and ongoing chain shifts in Britain and America have also been added as well as over 150 new references. The work remains non-technical in style and accessible to readers with no previous knowledge of linguistics.
| Author | : Joan Bybee |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2015-05-28 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1107020166 |
This new introduction explores all aspects of language change, with an emphasis on the role of cognition and language use.
| Author | : Ian Cushing |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 129 |
| Release | : 2018-05-10 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1108402232 |
This is a general introduction to the methods and principles behind English linguistics study, suitable for students at advanced level and beyond. Written with input from the Cambridge Corpus, it looks at the way meaning is made using authentic written and spoken examples. This helps students give confident analysis and articulate responses. Using short activities to help explain analysis methods, the book guides students through major modern issues and concepts. It summarises key concerns and modern findings, while providing inspiration for language investigations and non-examined assessments (NEAs) with research suggestions.
| Author | : Sally McConnell-Ginet |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 339 |
| Release | : 2020-08-27 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1108427219 |
Featuring current and historical concrete examples and minimising technical vocabulary, Words Matter is for all interested in examining ideas about language and its connections to social conflict and change. Accessible to general readers, the book will also be useful in linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, or other classes featuring language.
| Author | : Raymond Hickey |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2003-01-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1139433679 |
This specially commissioned volume considers the processes involved in language change and the issues of how they can be modelled and studied. The way languages change offers an insight into the nature of language itself, its internal organisation, and how it is acquired and used. Accordingly, the phenomenon of language change has been approached from a variety of perspectives by linguists of many different orientations. This book, originally published in 2003, brings together an international team of leading figures from different areas of linguistics to re-examine some of the central issues in this field and also to discuss new proposals. The volume is arranged into sections, including grammaticalisation, the typological perspective, the social context of language change and contact-based explanations. It seeks to cover the subject as a whole, bearing in mind its relevance for the general analysis of language, and will appeal to a broad international readership.
| Author | : Jeffrey D. Wilhelm |
| Publisher | : Teachers College Press |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2015-04-17 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0807770825 |
This book lays out a new vision for the teaching of English, building on themes central to Wilhelm's influential "You Gotta BE The Book." With portraits of teachers and students, as well as practical strategies and advice, they provide a roadmap to educational transformation far beyond the field of English. --from publisher description
